Chicken coop



`lune 3, 1930.

JQ J. BURsoN 1 1,761,325

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CHICKEN COOP Patented June 3,1930

UNITED STATES JOEL J. BURSON, F MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS CHICKEN door Application filed July 23,

This invention aims to provide a chicken coop which can be folded up readily to occupy small compass when not in use, the construe tion of the coop being such that it will withstand the hard usage to which devices of this kind are subjected.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in View, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 shows in top plan, a device constructed in accordance with the invention;

Figure 2 is a 'longitudinal section;

Figure 3 is an elevation showing the coop folded up; r

Figure 4 is a transverse section of the coop Figure 5 is a sectional view showing one of the latches.

In carrying out the invention there is provided a base 1. The base 1 may be made of any desired material. The numeral 2 marks a partition. The partition 2 may be made of any desired material. Hinges 3 unite the lower edge of the partition 2 with the base 1. Hinge brackets 4 are mounted on the base 1 at one edge thereof. Hinge brackets 5 are mounted on the base 1 at the opposite end thereof. The hinge brackets 5 are higher than the hinge brackets 4. This feature is shown in Figure 3. The coop comprises an end 6 and an end 7. The ends 6 and 7 are constructed in the same way.

Note Figure 4. The end 7 comprises a bottom bar 8. The bottom bar 8 is mounted to turn in the hinge brackets 5. The bottom bar of the end 6 is mounted to turn in the hinge brackets 4. The bottom bar 8 has rectangularly disposed arms 9. There are eyesv 10 at the upper ends of the arms 9.' The 192e.Y serial No. 294,914.

numeral 11 marks a top rail. The top rail 11 has eyes 12 receiving the arms 9. Vertical bars 14 connect the bottom bar 8 with the top rail 11. g

The coop includes a top 16. The top 16 in- 55 cludes a frame of approximately rectangular outline, including anend bar 7, and side bars 18. The side bars 18 have rectangularterminals 19 connected by an end bar 20. The end bar 2O is not in the same plane with the side 60 bars 18 and the end bars 17. This is shown best in Figure 2. The end bars 17 are received inthe eyes 10 of the end member 7 of the coop, and the end bar 20 turns in the corresponding eyes 10 of the end member 6 65 of the coop.4 Cross strips 21 connect the side bars 18 of the top 16. Certain of the cross strips 21 are united by connections 22 in the forms of rods. The rods or connections 22 are disposed in pairs and form openingsin 70 the top of the coop. Doors23v are provided. Thedoors 23 may be made of any desired material. Hinges 24 connect each door 23 with one connection 22 of each pair. The outer connection 22 of each pair is engaged by 75 a latch 25 on the doors 28.

i On one of the strips 25 of the top 16, a retainer 26 is mounted pivotally. The retainer 26 is adapted to straddle the upper edge of the partition 2 to hold the partition 80 at right angles to the base 1. Compare Figures 2 and 4.

The sides of the coop are constructed much like the ends 6 and 7. Each of the sides of the coop includes a bottom bar 27, corresponding to the bar 8 of Figure 4. The bar 27 has upstanding arms 28 like the arms 9 of Figure 2. There are eyes 29 at the upper ends of the arms 28. The eyes 29 are engaged around the side bars 18 ot' the top 16. The 9U sides of the coop, thus, are hingedly connected at their upper edges with the outer edges of the top 16. Each of the sides includes a top rail 30 like the part 11 of Figure 4. The top rail 30 has end eyes 31. The eyes 31 are en- 95 gaged around the arms 28. On the base 1, latches 33 are mounted, the latches being adapted to engage the bottom bars 27 of the sides.

In practical operation, when the coop is mi) set up, as shown in Figure 4 of the drawings, a retainer 26 is engaged with the upper edge of the partition 2 to hold the partition at right angles to the hase 1, and the latches 33 on the base 1 are engaged with the bottom bars 27 of the sides of the coop. The coop, thus, is retained in the rectangular, box-like form depicted in Figures 2 and 4 of the drawings.

When lit is desired to collapse the coop the retainer 26 is detached from the upper edgek of the partition 2 and the partition 2 is folded over on top of the base 1. The latches 33 are detached from the bottom bars 27 of the sides of the coop, and the sidespare swung inwardly, under the top 16, the sides hinging on the bars 18 of the top 16. Finally, the top 16 is lowered upon the inwardly folded sides, as shown in Figure 3, the end walls 6 and 7 of the coop folding into parallelism with the top 16, the end wall 6 beingunderneath one end of the top 16, assliownI in Figure 3, and the end Wall 7 being disposed in approximately the same plane With the topv .16, as shown in that figure.

vWhat is claimed is A` coop'comprising a top, depending sides hinged at their upper edgesto the top, a base, ends hinged to the base, means for hingedlyconnecting the top to the ends, latches forming areleasable pivotalconnection between the sides and the base, a vpartition extended betweentlie ends, means for connecting the partition hingedly with the base, the top comprising bars, a retainer pivotally and slidably mounted on one Aofthe bars and adapted to straddlethe upper edge ofthe partition to hold the partition at right angles to the base, the rpartition*forming compartments in the coop on opposite sides of the partition, doors hingedly mounted on the bars of the top and giving access to the compaltments.`

In testimony that I clz'liinvthe foregoing as my own. I havehhereto aiixed mv signature.

JOEL J., B'URsoN. 

